Financial Companies Ask IM Companies To Work Together

sammy.lost-angel.com writes "From this CNET article: "Two weeks ago, six top financial institutions met privately with AOL Time Warner, Microsoft, IBM and other leading corporate instant messaging providers and urged them to build communications networks that interoperate." The article even talks about Jabber."

Comments

OCD breeding environment? Anyone? Beuler?

[pedro]

A constantly same work environment with no unanticipated stimulus (hopefully NOT from the PHBs) is antithetical to mental health and creativity.
That's why workers with (small w) windows are more productive than those without.
Nobody can focus on a particular task without relief for more than a finite, task dependent period of time without losing focus, and becoming inefficient.
Sorry, Mr. PHB wannabe, but this is a property of ALL neurological systems, from flatworms on up the ladder.
What one is accustomed to, one ceases to pay attention to. Which leads to a mind inhabited by one big 'think within the box' hummmmm....
I'm gonna guess you're a 20ish business sk001 grad that fantasises that he actually possesses a clue or t00.
Guess what?
YOU'RE A MORON!
You know *nothing*.
Life does not work in the infantile 'gimme, gimme' fashion that you seem used to thinking in.
You do NOT own a plantation, and your workers, in order to do good work(s) for you, must be attracted to you via your glowing personality and obvious democratic ideals.
Otherwise..
Well.. you know the rest.
I had a physics teacher that put this one on a final:
'Joe Physics is sentenced to death.
The height of his guillotine is precisely 10 cubits.
We had to convert.
(lots of stuff about neck diameter and coefficients of friction slicing through flesh)
Will his head fall into the basket?'
Yes/No?

This guy was a BOFH par excellance.